(Sri #Jagannathadasa virachita) SRI #HARIKATHAMRUTASARA/PanchatanmAtrA Sandhi ಶ್ರೀ #ಜಗನ್ನಾಥದಾಸ ವಿರಚಿತ ಶ್ರೀ #ಹರಿಕಥಾಮೃತಸಾರ

(Sri #Jagannathadasa virachita)

SRI #HARIKATHAMRUTASARA/PanchatanmAtrA Sandhi
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244.      ಅಮಿತ ಮಹಿಮನಪಾರಗುಣಗಳ

            ಸಮಿತವರ್ಣಾತ್ಮಕ ಶ್ರುತಿ ಸ್ಮೃತಿ

                ಗಮಿಸಲಾಪವೆ ತದಭಿಮಾನಿಗಳೆಂದೆನಿಸಿಕೊಂಬ|

                ಕಮಲಸಂಭವ ಭವ ಸುರೇಂದ್ರಾ-

                ದ್ಯಮರರನುದಿನ ತಿಳಿಯಲರಿಯರು

                ಸ್ವಮಹಿಮೆಗಳಾದ್ಯಂತಮಧ್ಯಗಳರಿವ ಸರ್ವಜ್ಞ||30||

            Amita mahimanapAraguNagaLa

            samitavarNAtmaka shruti Smruti

            gamisalApave tadaBhimAnigaLendenisikomba|

            KamalasamBhava Bhava surEndrA-

            Dyamararanudina tiLiyalariyaru

            swamahimegaLAdyantamaDhyagaLariva sarvajna||30||

SUMMARY: Can the Shruti and Smrutis with limited alphabets make the infinite qualities of Sri Hari, whose greatness is unlimited and without any boundaries, understood? Lord Brahma, Shiva, Indra and other demi-gods, who are favoring deities (Abhmani devatas) of those qualities can never know those qualities of Sri Hari. Lord Hari, the Omniscient, alone knows his own beginning, the middle and the end.

This stanza exemplifies the unfathomable infinity of Lord Sri Hari in a very brilliant way. All the Shrutis and Smrutis put together are infinite by themselves. It is said about Vedas: “AnantA vai VedAha” (अनन्ता वै वॆदाः). In addition, Mahabharata has one lakh shlokas; the Eighteen Puranas account for four lakh shlokas; Pancharatra has one crore shlokas; Mula Ramayana averred by Sri Narada Muni to Sri Valmeeki consisted of one crore shlokas and so on. But, Sri Jagannathadasaru states that these Shrutis and Smrutis are “SamitavarNAtmaka” or whatever alphabets, words and sentences are found in these holy texts are ‘limited’, when compared to the ‘infinity factor’ or ‘infinity phenomenon’ of Lord Sri Hari. Goddess Lakshmi Devi, Lord Brahma, Lord Shiva, Lord Indra and all other demi-Gods can never ‘fathom’ the qualities, their dimension and depths, of Lord Sri Hari. The fifty-two alphabets are themselves limited because even the most inaudible sounds of air that blows, the water that flows, the sounds that birds and animals produce do all ‘signify’ the qualities of Lord Hari. Therefore, Lord Hari alone knows what he is and none else can dream of knowing him fully, says Sri Jagannatha Dasaru in this stanza.

The following stanzas in Gita put the message of the above stanza in better perspective:

SwayamEvAtmanA(ss)tmaanam vEtthattwam puruShOttama|

BhUtaBhAvana BhUtEsha dEvadEva jagatpatE||Gita (10/15)

BahUni mE vyateetAni janmAni tava chArjuna|

TAnyaham vEda sarvANi na twam vEtTha parantapa||Gita (4/5)

VEdAham samateetAni vartamAnAni chArjuna|

BhaviShyANi cha BhUtAni mAm tu vEda na kashchana||Gita7/26)

स्वयमॆवात्मानाssत्मानं वॆत्थत्वं पुरुषॊत्तम।

भूतभावन भूतॆश दॆवदॆव जगत्पतॆ॥गीता (१०/१५)

बहूनि मॆ व्यतीतानि जन्मानि तव चार्जुन।

तान्यहं वॆद सर्वाणि न त्वं वॆत्थ परन्तप॥(गीत ४/५)

वॆदाहं समतीतानि वर्तमानानि चार्जुन।

भविष्याणि च भूतानि मां तु वॆद न कश्चन॥गीत (७/२६)

Even Lord Hari has clarified that he knows that he is ‘infinity’ embodied. In the case of all others, except Hari, the feeling of “knowing everything” only signifies that they “do not” know “anything” or they extoll their ‘emptiness’. The forms, qualities, organs etc., of Sri Hari are infinitely infinite.

245.     ವಿತ್ತ ದೇಹಾಗಾರ ದಾರಾ-

                ಪತ್ಯ ಮಿತ್ರಾದಿಗಳೊಳಗೆ ಹರಿ

                ಪ್ರತ್ಯಗಾತ್ಮನು ಎಂದೆನಿಸಿ ನೆಲೆಸಿಪ್ಪನೆಂದರಿದು|

                ನಿತ್ಯದಲಿ ಸಂತೃಪ್ತಿಬಡಿಸುತ

                ಉತ್ತಮಾಧಮಮಧ್ಯಮರ ಕೃತ-

                ಕೃತ್ಯನಾಗುನ್ಮತ್ತನಾಗದೆ ಭೃತ್ಯ ನಾನೆಂದಿ||31||

            Vitta dEhAgAra dArA-

            PatyA mitrAdigaLoLage Hari

            pratyagAtmanu yendenisi nelesippanendaridu|

            Nityadali santruptibaDisuta

            uttamADhamamaDhyamara kruta-

            krutyanAgunmattanAgade Bhrutya nAnendi||31||

SUMMARY: One should be aware of the fact that in the materials, body, house, wife, children, friends and all others, Sri Hari is present as “pratyagAtma”; with that knowledge, one should keep satisfying the good, medium and wretched humans around without getting inebriated or dizzy and become successful by considering himself or herself as a ‘servant of the Lord’.

Within the humans, Lord Hari is present as the inner soul and in all other beings and materials around the person, Lord Hari is present in the form of PratyagAtma. He makes men and women ‘feel’ satisfied or dissatisfied by being present in everything and everywhere. This ‘ultimate submission’ to Lord Hari paves the path to Mukti or Moksha or salvation.

The word ‘krutakrutya’ has been described in Mayavadakhandane – Teeka as “KrutakrutyO muktaha” which means “Mukti” or salvation (refer Dr. Sri Prabhanjanachar’s “Sri Harikathmrutasara” compilation and edition page 293).

The words good, medium and wretched should be conceived as referring to elders, equals and younger ones. This entails being respectful to elders, friendly with equals and affectionate with younger ones.  

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